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    Does Alexander II truly deserve the title of liberator? To liberate is to set free (a group or individual) from legal‚ social or political restrictions. There is evidence to suggest that he disliked serfdom. Even his father‚ Nicholas I‚ believed that serfdom was an “evil palpable to all‚” and Alexander II was certainly even more liberally educated than his father. His arguably most fundamental reform was the emancipation of serfdom in 1861. As he said‚ “It is best to abolish serfdom from above

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    Consumerisum in the 1950's

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    media (mainly TV)‚ led to the emergence of a whole new market‚ teenagers. In Roland Marchand ’s “Visions of Classlessness” and Kelly Schrum’s “Making the American Girl”‚ the authors discuss the factors such as‚ effects of television‚ mass consumption‚ and increased income‚ which led to this new markets and some of the problems that came from it. In “Visions of Classlessness”‚ the main point that Marchand ’s make is that after WW II American people envisioned a society where class was no longer an issue

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    first day they had 60 000 casualties‚ including 20 000 dead however in the final result the British did win. The main plan of action was to kill all the German soldiers and destroy the German trenches.   Many people give General Haig the reputation as “The Butcher of the Somme” but many people would disagree with this. I think that he shouldn’t get the reputation as “The Butcher of the Somme” but he did do a lot of things not as well as he should have done.  There are many reasons why people blame

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    Essay The 1920’s was a decade full of many things becoming popular‚ such as dancing‚ sports‚ radio‚ new fashion styles‚ and also someone making history by flying across the Atlantic Ocean. The 1920’s was a prosperous (successful) decade. The 1920’s was also an unprosperous (unsuccessful) decade. Based on article 10‚ it shows that the 1920’s was a prosperous decade that proved to show that America has a lot to look forward to in the future. Also based on article 5‚ it shows that the 1920’s was an unprosperous

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    What Is Conformity?

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    critical than it is now. Role models‚ in the eyes of those that cherish their impact‚ are without question fabulously inspirational and wholesome. What’s more kindly‚ is how they demonstrate orchestration amongst one’s own generational society. Conformity can be the easiest way to formulate

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    Essay On 1940's Decade

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    1940’s Decade‚ Political Leaders/Historical Events The start of the 1940’s‚ it wasn’t something to be glad of‚ the second world war‚ a major event that occurred almost half the decade; was taking place and has Hitler‚ a major politician and leader of the Nazi Party may have been the cause of the major deadly historical event. World War II was fought between two sides‚ the Allies and the Axis powers. In the Allies side consisting of the U.S‚ Soviet Union and the UK‚ with political leaders Franklin

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    idea of segregation in America. All of the children were courageous enough to have very mean things yelled at them including acid thrown in their faces‚ yet all but one live today. The Jim Crow laws were a huge part of the act of segregation in the 1950s. The Jim Crow laws were put in place for many reasons. The laws were put in place after the Civil War‚ 1861-1865‚ to restrict the rights of African Americans and keep them separated from Whites (“Jim Crow Laws” Gale). Some

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    The 1950s was a great success for the civil rights movement; there were a number of developments which greatly improved the lives of black people in America and really started the civil rights movement‚ as black people became more confident and willing to fight for their cause. The first big development of the ‘50s came almost immediately at the turn of the decade‚ when the Supreme Court essentially overturned the verdict reached in the Plessy vs. Ferguson trial of 1896. Thanks to the NAACP lawyers

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    Cult Films and the 1950's

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    1950s Over past nine weeks we’ve embarked on a journey spanning seven decades of cult films and also received a brief education of our not so distant past. We’ve seen the outrageous‚ the good‚ the bad and the ugly‚ the weirdly dramatic‚ and the just plain weird of the last seven decades of cult films and how in the end somehow find away to incorporate a piece of American culture at the time. However‚ by far the most intriguing decade to me would have to be the nineteen fifties. There are many reasons

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    To what extent did Bismarck’s successors change his policy in the decade 1890-1900? The Franco-Prussian war of 1870 acted as a watershed in European history with the formation of the German Empire. No power alone‚ (perhaps with the exception of Russia) could defeat the new German Empire‚ and all the European powers with the exception of France were willing to allow Bismarck to consolidate German gains provided there was no further expansion. Bismarck having successfully won the Franco-Prussian

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